The
Business Council is reviewing three bills that would change
the way hospitals account for and spend taxpayers dollars
they receive for so-called "bad debt and charity care" cases.
The
Council has not taken a formal position on the bills (A
The
Business Council has asked the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) to exclude data from the Ocean County, New Jersey,
area in assessing how well metropolitan New York City complies
with a key federal environmental standard
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top New York State health insurer has developed a brief paper
designed to explain to business leaders and individuals anywhere
in the country how health insurance premiums are spent and
how increases are calculated
Personal
income taxes in New York State are the single biggest reason
New York's tax burden is uncompetitively high, according to
the fifth briefing paper in The Public Policy Institute's Tax
Watch '04 series
ALBANYNot raising state taxes in 2004 is a good and necessary first step in coping with the state's budget woes, but it's not enough, a top analyst of state finances told leaders in government and public policy at a symposium on state spending.
"New York's state and local governments spend more than they can afford, and everybody in Albany knows it," Robert Ward, director of research for The Public Policy Institute, said at a Dec
New York State businesses pay roughly one of every three
tax dollars collected in New York State, a tax burden than
is higher than most other states, according to the fourth
briefing paper in The Public Policy Institute's Tax
Watch '04 series
Governor
George Pataki today said that his 2004 budget would "absolutely
not" include any proposals to increase taxes.
"Our
tax burden is too high and I think it was a mistake to raise
taxes last year," the Governor said at a Dec
As
state lawmakers grapple with a pending budget gap of $5 billion
or more next year, they should trim Medicaid spending and
reject both tax increases and new borrowing, the state's chief
financial officer has told the New York Post
The
state Public Service Commission (PSC) has granted a request
by The Council and others to delay drafting a controversial
new energy mandate until the PSC gets more information on
its likely effects.
The
Nov
Senate Majority Leader Joseph L. Bruno announced proposals
to limit the growth of state spending on Medicaid and other
taxpayer-funded health programs, the biggest contributors
to major fiscal problems facing the state, county governments
and New York City